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Freer Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.] – Antique Wall Art

Freer Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1920] — historic photograph
Freer Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1920]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Freer Art Gallery, [Washington, D.C.]

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Few buildings on the National Mall were as closely tied to a single collector's taste as the Freer Gallery of Art, which this negative records in the years before its 1923 opening. Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer gave his collection of Asian art and works by James McNeill Whistler to the Smithsonian, and architect Charles Platt designed the museum to house them in a restrained classical style. The National Photo Company documented Washington's streets and landmarks on glass plates for decades, so this picture is part of a broad record of the city's changing face. Streaks and blemishes in the glass come from deterioration of the original coating, and they are worth noticing as part of the plate's history.

Created / published[ca. 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch six.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.}.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan7,153 × 5,513 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-258651

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